BlockMaple, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hamel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62025. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1927 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Edwardsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Maple between 2001 and 2014, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HENDRICKS1 |
| 27 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14047 |
| 5 December 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 November 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422934. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.